Game apparatus.



No. 641,410. Patented Ian. 16, I900.

G. A. SHAW.

GAME APPARATUS.

(Application filed Mar. 18, 1899.)

(No Model.)

Wnepgem NITE STATES GEORGE ALEXANDER SIIAYV, OF TORONTO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO IVILLIAM EGERTON LINCOLN HUNTER, OF SAME PLACE.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,410, dated January 16, 1900.

Application filed March 18, 1899. Serial No. 709,648. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE ALEXANDER SHAW, lieutenant-colonel, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in game apparatus particularly adapted for parlor use; and the object of the invention is to devise an interesting game to be played with balls and cues by any number from two to eight persons, and which I term rainbow billiards; and it consists in the construction of the game-board and the manner of playing the game, as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure l is a perspective view of my gameboard complete. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a billiard-table, showing my game apparatus applied thereto.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

This game may be played with sixteen, twenty-four, or thirty-two balls, as desired. The balls are colored in sets of eight with the colors of the rainbow--viz., violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and an extra white ball.

A is the board, which is provided with the bounding sides B.

O are the angularly-arranged strips, having eight arches or pockets, as indicated, each arch being colored correspondingly to the balls-viz, with the seven colors of the rainbow and White, as indicated by the divisions c in the drawings.

0' are angular pockets in which the balls are held. It will be noticed that the playing portion of the table has eight sides or is cotagonal. The sides between the arches are provided, preferably, with rubber cushions D of any suitable form.

E is the central ringspace.

In Fig. 2 I show two ring-spaces E and a central rectangular frame F, having eight arches on each side, all correspondingly colored, as indicated by the division f, to the colors of the rainbow and White.

In the construction shown in Fig. 2, where I utilize a billiard-table, it will be seen that I make the angular cross-strips containing the arches as part of the corner-frame C and also the pockets 0 for the reception of the balls. All the playing portion of the board outside the corner-spaces is preferably covered with a suitable cloth.

The rulesof the game are as follows:

First. The game may be played by from two to eight persons very readily, and when four to eight persons play they should play as partners.

Second. All players. must start from one side of the table,playin g one ball each against the opposite cushion. The one whose ball approaches in its return the nearest to the cushion on the side from which he plays has the first shot, the next second, and so on. All the balls in hand must be played at the start within six inches from the side, and the proper-colored balls are equally divided between the players, the difierent players taking contrasting colors.

Third. Every ball must be played into its own-co1ored arch or pocketviz., the violet into the violet, the indigo into the indigo arch, and so on. Should the players ball go into any other arch, he loses a shot and must play that ball when his turn comes again.

Fourth. The player may carom off any ball into his own arch, or he may make a cushion shot and play his own ballhome without striking another ball, or he may carom from the cushion to a ball and thence home into his arch, or vice versa. The player also may drive any of his balls home into the corre sponding arches by playing on them with any of his own balls.

Fifth. The player continues playing as long as he gets his balls home into their corresponding arches. If he misses,the nextplayer takes his turn.

Sixth. If the player should cause any of his opponents balls to enter any arch, he must lose his shot and play again in his turn with the ball he played, and his opponents ball shall be placed in the center ring of the board.

The player who first gets all his balls home wins the game.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A game apparatus comprising a rectangular board and a straight cross -piece ar ranged across each angle of the board and provided with eight passage-ways or openings colored correspondingly to the colors of the rainbow plus an extra color and resilient rebounding cushions extending along the sides and ends between the ends of the crosspieces and a series of balls corresponding in number to the arches in each cross-piece and correspondingly colored, each of said balls being designed to be shot into its correspondingly-colored arch, substantially as described.

2. A game apparatus comprising a rectangular board having suitable bounding sides, the angular cross-pieces having eight arches correspondingly colored to the colors of the rainbow plus white, and forming four sides of the board the intermediate sides provided with suitable rebounding-cushions, the centering-rin gs and the central rectangular frame supported upon the face of the table and having on each side eight arches correspondingly colored to the colors of the rainbow plus white, and the eight balls colored to correspond to the arches designed to be shot therein as and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE ALEXANDER SHAW.

Witnesses:

B. BOYD, W. ARMS. 

